Toy oil-well.



PATENTED MAR. 3. 1908.

C. & J. WEISENBAGH.

TOY OIL WELL.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 23. 1907.

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PATENTED MAR. 3, 1908.

0. & J. WEISENBAOH.

TOY OIL WELL.

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UNITED 'rns PATENT FFICE.

TOY OIL-WE LL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 3, 1908.

Application filed August 23, 1907. Serial No. 389,869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHRISTIAN WEISEN- BACH and JAooaWEIsENBAoI-r, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Oil- Wells, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to improvements in toys, and the invention has for its object to provide a miniature oil well and machinery for operating the same.

Another object of our invention is to pro vide a collapsible toy, adapted to afford considerable amusement to children, by assembling the same, and operating the oil well.

A further object of this invention is to provide a harmless toy which will actually pump a fluid, and in order that the toy will be compact in form, we provide a water system, which is placed in circulation by the pump of the toy.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a strong and durable toy that cannot e readily injured by ordinary use or handling.

With the above and other objects in view which will more readily appear as the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of our toy, Fig. 2 is an elevation of a portion of the same, Fig. 3 is a plan of a portion of the toy, partly in section, Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a part of one of the standards of the oil well derrick or rigging illustrating the manner in which the derrick or rigging is assembled and disassembled, Fig. 5 is an elevation partly in section of the engine or motor house of the toy, Fig. 6 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view of the same, Fig. 7 is a cross-sectional View of the collapsible shaft house of the toy, Fig. 8 is aview of the same collapsed, and Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a house fastener.

To put our invention into practice,- we provide a suitable platform 1 having legs or supports 2, said platform representing a miniature oil well field. Upon the platform 1 we secure metallic anchors 3 for the angle standards 4 of the oil well derrick or rigging.

! adapted to The standards 4 converge towards a top plate or cover 5 and said standards are braced by a plurality of pivotally connected bars 6, said bars being constructed upon the principle of lazy tongs. The bars are fit between the standards 4 and have their upper and lower free ends secured to said standards by buttons 7, said buttons being pivotally connected to the free ends of the bars, whereby after they have passed through slots 8 formed in the upper and lower ends of the standards 4, they can be partially rotated to hold the lazy tong bars in engagement with the standards 4.

The platform 1 centrally of the derrick or rigging is provided with a vertically disosed tube 9, representing an oil well casing and in the device constituting a pump cylinder. The tube 9 below the platform 1 is provided with an auxiliary reservoir 10, while in the tube is a conventional form of piston or sucker 11, the rod 12 of which connects at its upper end with a walking beam 14, said beam being pivotally mounted upon a shaft 15 arranged between two of the standards 4 of the oil well derrick or rigging.

Adjacent to the oil well derrick or rigging we arrange a metallic shaft house, consisting hinged roof 18. The walls of the house are hinged together, as at 19, whereby said walls can be folded, as illustrated in Fig. 8 of the drawings. The lower edges of the walls are openings 21 formed in fasteners 22, arranged upon the platform 1. The two-part folding roof 18 is secured to the upper edges of the walls of the house by lugs 23, carried by said side walls, these lugs passing through slots formed in the eaves of the roof.

In the house just described there is journaled a shaft 24 having a crank arm 25 upon its inner end, which is pivotally connected to the walking beam 14. The shaft 24 within the house is provided with a balance wheel 26 and with a grooved pulley wheel 27.

Contiguous to the shaft house just de scribed is located an engine or motor house, this house being constructed of flanged side walls 28, end walls 29 and a hinged two-part roof 30. The caves of the roof 30 are provided with brackets 31 for fitting upon the inner sides of the walls 28 and 29. These walls 28 and 29 are connected together by inwardly extending headed pins 32 carried by the flanges 33 of the side walls 28. The pins of side walls 16, end walls 17, and a two part provided wlth headed pins 20 for engaging in v i through slots 41 and 42 formed in the confronting end walls 17 and 29 of the shaft house and motor house respectively. The motor 37 is connected by wires 42 and 43 with a dry battery cell 44 located in the engine or motor house.

Upon the platform 1 is located a tank 45 having a cover plate 46. The top of the tank is connected with the tube 9 by a pipe 47,

while the bottom of the tank is connected with the auxiliary reservoir 10 by the pipe 48, thus providing a continuous circulation of water through the tube or pump 9.

To operate the toy. it is only necessary to connect the wires 42 and 43 to the dry battery cell 44, and motor 37, whereby a com plete electrical circuit will pass through motor 37 and rotate the armature 38 thereof. A rotary movement from the motor 37 is imparted to the shaft 24, through the medium of the cable 40, and a reciprocatory movement is imparted to the piston 11 through the medium of the walking beam 14 and the crank arm 25. As the piston 11 is vertically reciprocated the water contained within the tank 45 and the auxiliary reservoir 11 will be circulated.

The tank or riggingofthe toy, the pump 9, the shaft and motor house, together with the tank 45 are constructed of light and durable metal, and as thederrick and houses are collapsible and can be easily disassembled,

the toy will occupy a comparatively small space when packed or disassembled.

The simplicity of construction entering into our invention permits of the toy being manufactured at a comparatively small cost without marring the qualifications of the toy as a medium for juvenile amusement.

Having now described our invention What we claim as new, is:

1. In a toy, a supporting platform, a knock-down well-derrick mounted thereon and comprising anchors secured to the platform, uprights or corner posts of angle'form received at their lower ends in said-anchors and provided adjacent their lower'and upper ends. with slots, brace-bars between the uprights, said brace-bars being in the form of lazy-tongs, and buttons carried by the free ends of the end bars of each setof brace-bars, said buttonsengaging in the slots of said uprights and securing thebrace-bars in position.

2. In a toy, a supporting platform, a knockdown well-derrick mounted thereon, a pump arranged in the platform centrally of the derrick and extending above and below the platform, a tank mounted on the platform, a pipe connecting said pump with said tank, an auxiliary reservoir connected to the lower end of the pump, a pipe extending through the platform and communicating with the auxiliary reservoir and the tank, a walking beam pivotally mounted in the well derrick and connected at one end to the piston-rod of said pump, a drive shaft mounted on the platform and having a crank arm on one end to which the other end of said walking beam is connected, and a motor mounted on the platform and connected to said drive shaft for actuating the latter and operating the pump.

CHRISTIAN WEISENBAOH. JACOB WEISENBAOH.

Witnesses:

MAX H. SROLOVITZ, C. A. RENZIEHAUSEN. 

